In the resurrection therefore, when they shall rise, whose wife shall she be of them? for the seven had her to wife.
So when everyone comes back to life in the resurrection, whose wife is she gonna be? Because all seven brothers were married to her at some point.
They're basically asking Jesus to solve the world's most complicated relationship status.
📚 Historical Context
In the first century AD, the Sadducees were a group of Jewish leaders who rejected the idea of resurrection, using this question to challenge Jesus during his teaching in Jerusalem. They based their hypothetical scenario on the Old Testament law of levirate marriage from Deuteronomy, where a widow would marry her deceased husband's brother to preserve the family line. This was an attempt to expose what they viewed as logical inconsistencies in the concept of life after death.
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